Ari Gold

While stumbling around YouTube I came upon these music videos that may be of interest.   Generally, the video has to have hot guys, a gay Diva such as Cher, gay theme, or a gay artist.  First, a techno remix of Listen to Your Heart by DHT that features some decent looking guys, referring to themselves as Straight-Up-Thuggin’  lip-synching to the song.

On a more serious side, here is a music video, Where the Music Takes You,  by Ari Gold on his third album.   His self titled debut album featured, as WikiPedia states, “something almost unprecedented in R & B: explicit gay love songs.”

As, he later said in an interview:

When I came out with my first album in 2000, there was no other openly gay R&B or pop singer who was out from the beginning of his career like I was. Certainly no one else was singing about being gay. With the help of a publicist friend I got myself on the cover of every gay rag. I tried to see if any of the mainstream record labels were interested in the album, but they wouldn’t touch it. When I played “Write Me a Love Song,” which included male pronouns in the lyrics, one exec said, “I won’t even go there.” Ironically, the exec was a gay man.

– From The Advocate, Dec 2006

If you like what you hear you can find this and all his music on iTunes.

For Yaoi lovers (follow link for more information or do a google search) this next video, Haru wo Daiteita, takes Armin Van Buuren’s song “Burned with Desire” and puts it all together in an interesting video.   If you have never been exposed to Yaoi fictional media, take a moment, explore, and enjoy.  There are a lot of examples on YouTube to get you started.